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Sep 22, 2020

Google DeepVariant Boosts Accuracy of Indel Calls in PacBio Long Reads

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In a PrecisionFDA challenge, DeepVariant calls of PacBio HiFi reads topped 99 percent precision and recall for SNVs and indels, bringing HiFi in line with Illumina. 

Sep 09, 2020

Verily Life Sciences Coronavirus Test Gets FDA Emergency Use Authorization

Verily's test is a modified version of Thermo Fisher Scientific's authorized TaqPath COVID-19 Combo Kit that can be used with pooled samples.

Jun 15, 2020

Genome In a Bottle Consortium Releases Structural Variant Calling Benchmark Data

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The public-private partnership has published a paper on a list of indels larger than 50 bp that is already being used to develop new methods.

May 20, 2020

Project Baseline Expands to Study Coronavirus

Verily is adapting its Project Baseline to study the immune system response to SARS-CoV-2, CNBC reports.

Apr 27, 2020

Rockefeller University, Cerevance Pursue Pooled Nuclei Sequencing to Target Brain Cell Types

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Cerevance, a drug discovery firm employing the transcriptome sequencing method, raised $45 million in Series B financing earlier this month.

Apr 02, 2020

Bionano Prices $18M Stock, Warrant Offering

The company is also participating in a study, being conducted at Hannover Medical School, investigating the genetics of susceptibility to COVID-19.

Mar 26, 2020

Tapping Computing Power

The White House earlier this week announced a supercomputer consortium to uncover or develop drugs to address the COVID-19 pandemic, according to NPR.

Mar 03, 2020

Hey Google, Give Us Some Answers

A trio of Senators were unimpressed with the lack of detail Google provided them regarding Project Nightingale, and they want answers.

Nov 12, 2019

Google's Health Info Gathering

Google's Project Nightingale has collected health information on millions of Americans, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Jun 27, 2019

Lawsuit Alleges Privacy Violations

A lawsuit alleges the University of Chicago shared medical record data with Google that included information that should not have been, according to the New York Times.

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The Scan

This Time, Novavax

Novavax has begun a phase III trial of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, according to the New York Times.

Shortened Visas for Some Students

Vox reports that the Trump Administration may limit student visas for individuals from some countries to two years.

New York's Own Review

The governor of New York says the state will conduct its own review of any SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, NPR reports.

Science Papers Examine Y Chromosomes of Archaic Humans, Schistosomiasis Therapeutic Targets

This week in Science: Neanderthal Y chromosomes replaced by Homo sapiens Y chromosomes, and more.

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